July 10, 2010

July 07, 2010

Wow, um... that really is not a good movie. It was like M.Night Shyamalan watched all first season and tried to incorporate everything but didn't know how to do it. He stated in an interview about The Last Airbender that writing the script is a lonely process locked in a room alone. (IMO, he probably should have asked for help.) None of the scenes flowed to one another. The kids did their best, but they tried to act like adults instead of kids. The effects were good, but then again it didn't match the scenes. Shyamalan's attempt at humor was little success and many of the characters just seemed out of sorts. Like Zuko's Uncle Iroh seemed stiff, humorless, and to uptight; when the animated version is relaxed and humored. The only character that seemed to be correct in any sort of way and we only see about 10 seconds of her is Azula (Zuko's sister). I don't know if Shyamalan will make the other two movies at this point, but if the other two movies are like the first I don't think I want to see them. Maybe he should get his daughter to write the script for the next movie; at this point she couldn't do any worse than him.

July 03, 2010

in a recent nickelodeon special for The Last Airbender M.Night Shyamalan said that he didn't understand how firebenders could pull fire out from no where and the others (water, air, earth) had to have some sort of element to bend. Wow, that seems like a pretty major reason on why not to make this movie. The firebender have a source in which they drawn their fire from. It's called 'The Sun' in several episodes it even states The Sun is there main source of power. This is why a firebender is weaker at night. Some firebenders are better connected to their own chi and are stronger with it. Just like Waterbenders can pull water straight from the air as seen in 'The Puppetmaster.' He also said he changed a hand full of names to the Asian pronounciation to 'because he's Asian' like the pronounciation of the main character to Aung instead of Aang. Which doesn't bother me so much but seems rather odd he would use that as an excuse. He also took out several scenes with the Kyoshi Warriors, which I can understand as long as he remember Suki, is a love interest to one of the major characters. From what I can gather from watching the Theatre Clips, is that he didn't know how to separate the movie from the animated series. Sad, I would have love to see a good movie instead of just a regurgitation of the same series just with real people.